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The renewed burial of Russian soldiers who died in Austro-Hungarian captivity during the First World War, has been opened in the Czech Republic, TASS reports. The cemetery is located in the western part of the country in the Jindřichovice village of the Karlovy Vary Region. There was one of the largest war prisoner camps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire then included the Czech Republic.
Participants in the memorial ceremony were Russian diplomats, government officials, public figures, compatriots, and motorcyclists from the Night Wolves and Victory Roads clubs. More than fifty Russians were buried in the cemetery. There are also the graves of two hundred soldiers from the Russian Empire army. One hundred years ago, the locals erected a monument to soldiers from countries that fought against Austria-Hungary and Germany and their ashes were transferred there.
The ceremony was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the First World War end. Armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed doing away with the Great War.
The head of the Serbian embassy honored the memory of the Russians. The diplomat noted that earlier there used to be graves of Serbian war prisoners died from wounds and diseases in the cemetery. Their ashes were also transferred to the territory of the memorial monument.
Russkiy Mir
